Living Armstrongism: Tensions in the Holy Land

Monday, October 5, 2015

Tensions in the Holy Land

The current tensions within the Holy Land are saddening and horrifying. People are dying. It is such a tragic and sickening situation. As bad as things are they could always get worse. I dearly hope that does not happen. I was hoping things would calm down but clearly it is not getting better at present.

The State of Israel is vastly more powerful than any institution the Palestinians are able to create at present. The State of Israel have an army, an air force, a navy, renowned intelligence institutions, military conscription, and even nuclear weapons. The Israeli government is vastly more powerful than the Palestinian Authority, Hamas or any other Palestinian faction.

One problem is that the State of Israel have imposed restrictions on Palestinian Muslims entering Al Aqsa Mosque and the associated grounds thus hampering their ability to worship on a site that is most precious to the Palestinian people. It seems that removing these restrictions and letting all Muslims worship there as they please would have calmed things down.

However these restrictions regarding Muslims entering Al Aqsa Mosque are still in force and now the Israeli authorities have restricted many Palestinians from even entering the Old City of Jerusalem. How could Palestinians view this as anything other than a hostile act? That restriction could make this bad situation even worse. The Palestinians need to live as free men and women in Jerusalem and in Al Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding grounds.

So as the most powerful force within the Holy Land the Israeli government is the side that can most easily use their power to de-escalate the situation. Now is most emphatically not the time for the Israeli government to act all macho and threatening but rather they should calm things down. Is throwing more law enforcement personnel into the tense situation really necessary?

It is so sad and such a dreadful situation.

How dare the COGs tell us there is no hope that these things will be resolved and that all are doomed for more strife and turmoil until Christ returns.

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Fall of Berlin Wall NOT Proof HWA was Right

It is often asserted that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 proved that HWA was right and he really did see the future.

This of course is nonsense. Herbert W. Armstrong said that Christ would return within twenty years in his book Mystery of the Ages. (PCG has since deleted those words so someone in there knows HWA spoke nonsense.) How convenient for them to forget this.

Also Herbert W. Armstrong never said the Soviet Union would collapse. He thought it would survive intact until a few years after Christ's return. It shows how biased some many in the COGs are that they never seem to notice this. This inconvenient truth is just tossed into the memory hole.

It is true that HWA said that some Eastern European states would break away from Moscow's orbit and join the European Empire he said would arise at any moment. But he never talked of the Soviet Union collapsing. He did not teach that. Also he portrayed the rise of the European Empire to be far quicker then what has actually happened. In Mystery of the Ages Christ was supposed to return by 2005 at the most.

So assertions that the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow prove that HWA was right is just complete nonsense spread by people who, for whatever reason, are still in denial that HWA was a false prophet who merely talked out of his own "human reasoning".

Truth about Roderick C. Meredith

What sort of man is he? A man who could say things like this.

"Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any members who attend GTA's [Garner Ted Armstrong's] campaigns, church services or other meetings. Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them, or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the underdog," or in any other way lend support to one whose gross immorality, whose long standing "play acting" and hypocrisy, and whose direct insubordination to the Government of God has long been and is now a source of confusion and DIVISION among God's people. So, as per Mr. Armstrong's instruction, I charge and exhort every one of you faithful ministers of the living Christ to explain this in no uncertain terms to your members, to warn them about this cause of division and then to disfellowship any who consort with GTA or any of his fellows." (Roderick C. Meredith, Pastor's Report, May 21, 1979, pp. 1-2.)

See here for this statement's context.

David Robinson on Roderick C. Meredith

WCG minister David Robinson had this to say about Roderick C. Meredith in a letter he wrote to him on September 19, 1979.

"During the ten years I have been an employee of the Worldwide Church, you have been poorly spoken of by most of the ministers and employees I have known. I vividly remember the absolute unbounded glee that was openly expressed by a good number of respected men in the church when you were first "shanghaied." [In 1972.] I could begin by naming names, which I am sure would shock you. I was one of the few who stood, where possible, for you. Your tenure as superintendent of ministers, as I believe the office was then called, was looked on as nightmarish. While you held office during the years of growth, most of those whom I know gave you very little credit for that growth. Almost everyone whom I know, whether they be former friends of yours, or continuing foes, recalls insensitive and terrible things you have done. Without exception, at least among my acquaintances, they all credit you with an unbridled lust for power and list you as one who is willing to pay the price of gaining that power, no matter what. I have, through many of the last few years, believed you had principles you would not violate. Many a man of experience in the church assured me of my error. Events have proven me wrong and them right. Mr. Armstrong has himself been widely quoted as saying of you that you were so righteous that you were so "righteous you were unrighteous." " (David Robinson, Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web, Chapter 16, p. 207.)

Of course it is impossible for me to personally verify these assertions but people deserve to know what this knowledgeable man had to say about him.

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